7/28/13
View Logs: The Killing S3 Episode 9
Episode Title: Reckoning
Yeah ok... This show is officially the worst thing ever for killing off my favorite supporting cast character... Sorta... well ok. I know that's a pretty biased assessment but goddammit... I liked Bullet so much more than Lyric or Twitch. It just seemed like all the pair did was be idiots throughout the series so far and Bullet's really the only person on the streets who was aware and active. Yet Lyric and Twitch get their happy ending, moving into a comfy home while Bullet winds up brutally slashed in some guy's trunk. Ugh. I can't say this is specifically bad writing but that ending left a bad taste in my circuits. This show is primarily about how every little action can have such severe consequences and yet Lyric and Twitch seems to be the only two characters who made bad decisions and the consequences were positive. Twitch, through little development, decides to grow up and give up his dream of moving to LA to "act" and "model". And Lyric has just gotten lucky this whole time. Admittedly, there's still three episodes to go so I'll have to wait and see what happens. But I would like to see them grow a lot more rather than things suddenly going their way.
Well... atleast Danielle's character has developed tremendously since the beginning of the show. While her character arc is a little obvious, it's still fairly intriguing to see how she gradually realized what an absentminded mother she was to Kallie. The writers this time around decided to develop her character through interacting with people which was a good decision in the long run. Part of the problem with the mother of Rosie Larson in Season 1 was that she spent nearly all of her time alone and sobbing and those scenes ended up dragging and stagnating.
Of course, people who withdraw from the world can make great characters. But it seems like every time the show decides to apply this kind of treatment to it's characters it just ends up stewing within it's own writing... never really going anywhere.
Speaking of never really going anywhere... Seward... I'm still utterly confused and baffled by this character. Maybe I'm missing something? But at the beginning he seemed like such a cold hard criminal... going as far as killing a prison chaplain by beating his skull in... and now suddenly he has all these regrets? I understand that the show is trying to display Seward realizing more and more that he's going to die and it's making him change. But the extremes of his actions and mannerisms between first few episodes and the most recent ones just don't really match and feel contrived. There wasn't nearly enough development to warrant a character change this drastic... what... he let his friend hang himself in jail? And... that's it? To be honest when that happened he didn't really seem to care too much so you can't use that as a catalyst for his character change.
Going back to the plot... I think I'm right... the killer might be someone in a position of authority. Either the warden or Reddick. I still think I might be right. If I am, I'm going to be very mad.
